Central Government Employees & Employment Corner

No. 11012/11/2007-Estt.A Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Personnel & Training North Block, New Delhi Dated: 21st June 2013 Office Memorandum Subject :  Guidelines regarding grant of vigilance clearance to members of the Central Civil Services/Central Civil Posts. The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s O.M. of even number dated 14.12.2007 on the above subject and to say that it has been decided to modify Para 2(c) thereof as under:

Com. T.K.R. Pillai, General Secretary of All India Association of Administrative Staff (NG) has been written a letter to PMO regarding upgradation of grade pay of LDC & UDC in the Administrative branch of Government of India Offices.  The text of the said letter is reproduced below:- ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF(NG) MINISTRY OF STATISTICS & PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION GOVERNMENT ON INDIA NSSO (FOD), Hall No. 201 & 205, Vijay Stumbh, Zone I, MaharanaPratap Nagar,                                                                           Bhopal,  20/06/2013 No. 3/GS/2013 To             The Hon’ble Prime Minister,             Government of India,             New Delhi S...

No.12035/3/2002-Pol.II Government of India Ministry of Urban Development Directorate of Estates Policy-II Section Nirman Bhawan,  New Delhi - 110 108. Dated the 25th June, 2013 Office Memorandum Furnishing of information regarding transfer, retirement, voluntary retirement, resignation, missing, long leave (with medical certificate and without medical certificate) and death of Government officials, who have been allottees of General Pool Residential Accommodation (GPRA) and disciplinary action taken against the delinquent allottees of GPRA to the Directorate of Estates.

No.41/26/2010- P&PW(E) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare 3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan Market, New Delhi, Dated 25th/26th June, 2013  Office Memorandum Sub: Grant of Ex-gratia to those pre-1986 Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) employees who retired otherwise than on superannuation after 20 years of service - regarding. In this Department's OM No.45/52/97-P&PW(E), dated 22.03.2004, it was clarified that the following categories of CPF beneficiaries would not be entitled to grant of ex-gratia payment in terms of OM No.45/52/97-P&PW(E), dated 16.12.1997:-

F.No.1/17/2011-P&PW (E) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market, New Delhi Dated: 24th/25th June, 2013  OFFICE MEMORANDUM Sub: Grant of family pension and gratuity to the eligible member of the family of an employee/pensioner/family pensioner reported missing — consolidated instructions - regarding. The provisions regarding grant of gratuity and family pension to the members of families of the deceased Government servants/pensioners who were appointed on or before 31st December, 2003 and who are/were born on pensionable establishments are contained in Rules 50-54 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. The instructions regarding grant of family pension and gratuity under these rules to the eligible member of the family of an employee reported missing had been issued vide this Department's earlier office memorandum No. 1/17/86-P&PW, date...

No. AB.14017/34/2008-Estt. (RR) (Pt.)  Government of India  Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions  Department of Personnel and Training  New Delhi, the 17th June, 2013  OFFICE MEMORANDUM  Subject: Recommendations of 6th CPC in para 6.1.13 regarding lateral entry against identified SAG/HAG posts requiring technical/ Specialized knowledge.   The Sixth Central Pay Commission (6th CPC) have inter alia recommended in para 6.1.13 of its Report that some of the SAG and HAG posts in Government requiring technical or specialized knowledge and which are not encadred in any of the Service be identified and filled by suitable officers within the Government as well as by the outsiders.

OFFICE OF THE CGDA ULAN BATAR ROAD, PALAM DELHI CANTI-10 For Special Attention of Retired Armed Forces Officers and NOKs/Legal Heirs of Deceased Officers (In the mailer of Hon'ble Supreme Court Order of 04/09/2012 on Rank Pay) According to MoD Letter No, 34(6)2012-D (Pay/Services) dated 27 December, 2012 in regard to implementation of Hon'ble Supreme Court Qrder dated 04th September, 2012, the pay of the officers of the Armed Forces holding the rank of Capt/Maj/Lt Col(TS)/Lt Col(Sel)/Col/Brig and equivalent ranks in Air Force and Navy serving as on 01/01/1986 is to be revised for payment of arrears of Pay.

The DoPT is not been working on any proposal to increase the retirement age to 62 from 60 years for Central Government Employees.  A senior official from DoPT has confirmed the above news to media and also clarified that  a committee has been formed for increase the retirement age of specialists in scientific and medical fields (scientists) to 64 years.  The news article of Zee News, which is showing updation time of 13.28 of 16th June, it means it is very latest news in this regard, the text of the said news is reproduced below:-

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN (Min. of HRD, Deptt. of Education, Govt. of India) 18-Institutional Area  Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg 110016/ NEW DELHI — 110016 No. F.110331-01/2013/KVS(HQ)/Acad Date: 11.06.2013 The Deputy Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, All Regional Offices and ZIETs,  Sub: Amendment in Admission Guidelines 2013-14-Part-C, Procedure for Admissions Para-9 (I), Method of admission in Class XI (KV Students) 1. KV Students: Admissions in different streams viz. Science, Commerce, Humanities of Class XI in KVs for KV students who have passed Class X will be regulated as follows:

No. 36028/8/2009-Estt. (Res.) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pension Department of Personnel & Training North Block, New Delhi- 110001. Dated: 7th June, 2013 Office Memorandum Subject: Concessions to Scheduled Castes and scheduled Tribes in posts filled by  promotion  by selection-posts within Group A (Class I) . The undersigned is directed to invite  reference  to this Department OM No. 36028/21/2003-Estt. (Res.) dated 29th January 2004 which provides that in promotion by selection to posts within Group A (Class I) which carry an ultimate salary of Rs.18,300/- per month or less, the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe officers, who are senior enough  in the zone  of consideration for promotion so as to be within the number of vacancies for which the select list has to be drawn up, would be included in that list provided they are not considered unfit for promotion. The scale...

Antony seeks AG’s opinion on issue of rank pay fixation Wants clarification on interpretation of apex court order Tribune News Service New Delhi, June 14 Faced with differing interpretations of a Supreme Court order on correct fixation of “rank pay” of armed forces officers, Defence Minister AK Antony today decided to seek opinion of the Attorney General (AG). The “rank pay” issue is popularly known as the Major AK Dhanapalan case. The Supreme Court, in a verdict last September, ordered fixation of “rank pay” since January 1, 1986, for the Fourth Pay Commission.

Implementation of Hon'ble Supreme Court (RANK PAY CASE) Judgement dated 04/09/2012 ADVERTISEMENT a. Army officer's who were in receipt of Rank Pay in 01/01/1986 are entitled for arrears of Pay as per Hon'ble Supreme Court Judgement. b. PCDA(O) Pune has not yet received bank details from some of the officer's. In some cases officer's promotion details are not available with PCDA(O). c. Officer's can download from website the formats on which bank details have to be forwarded to Pay  Revision Cell, O/o Pr. CDA(O), Golibar Maidan, Pune —411001 . d. Officer's may contact PCDA(O) on the following Numbers on Working Hours Shri. N. R. Deshpande -02026401138 Mobile No. 9561770266  PRO - 02026401111  PRO – 02026401356  Format BANK DETAILS FORM -1    To be filled by the officer himself   Personal Number Rank (as on 01/01/1986) Name CDA A/C Number Date of Commission Date of Retirement/Release/ Invalidment/Desertion etc PAN PPO Number a...

Controller General of Accounts (CGA) has instructed vide his No. 1(7)(2)/2000/TA/Pt.file/325 dated 12.06.2013 to all the Central Government Offices that they should continue to remit funds to the designated NPS Trust accounts being maintained with the current trustee bank i.e. Bank of India till 30th June, 2013.  Axis Bank as a new Trustee Bank in place of Bankd of India for National Pension System with effect from 1st July, 2013.  Text of CGA's letter is reproduced below:- 

No. 36028/8/2009-Estt. (Res.) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pension Department of Personnel & Training North Block, New Delhi- 110001. Dated: 7th June, 2013 Office Memorandum Subject: Concessions to Scheduled Castes and scheduled Tribes in posts filled by  promotion  by selection-posts within Group A (Class I) .

No.36035/3/2013-Estt.(Res.II) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grieances and Pensions Department of Personnel and Training North Block, New Delhi Dated  10th  June, 2013 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject : Framing of guidelines for smooth functioning of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in their duties in Government services. The undersigned is directed to inform that a Committee has been constituted under the Chairmanship of Joint Secretary (AT&A), DoPT to identify measures and prepare guidelines to enable smooth functioning of Persons with Disabilities in their duties in Government service.

Department is receiving a number of representations, on service matters, addressed to the Prime Minister / Minister / Secretary (P) and other officers directly from the Government servants.  In this regard DOPT has issued following Memorandum dated 06.06.2013 No.11013/08/2013-Estt.(A)-III Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Personnel & Training North Block, New Delhi Dated the 6th June, 2013

"A move is afoot to raise the retirement age of over five million central government employees from 60 to 62 years" "The Ministry of Personnel and Training has forwarded a proposal in this regard to the Prime Minister's office (PMO) for inclusion in the agenda of the Cabinet for consideration, after securing consent of various ministries, sources said, claiming that it has an approval of the finance ministry. The decision will help immensely those on the verge of retirement to continue in service for two years." The above texts are the part of News Item Published by Goa Based English News Paper OHeraldOthe full text of the news article is reproduced below.  Earlier same news was published by Financial express that enhancement in Retirement Age from 60 to 62 years, an in-principal Decision has been taken by DoPT:- Central workers to retire at 62? - TEAM HERALD June 11, 2013

Retirement Age for Central Government employees to enhance by two years from 60 to 62..!   Last week, the important decision was expected by the Cabinet Committee, which was held on 4th June 2013, but no decision taken in the meeting. Though the media and websites are still spreading the news that the "Government has already taken in principle decision to increase the retirement age for two years and the implementation will also be within this year". The intense debate is going on about this issue, a website published an article of advantage and disadvantages of the decision.   

An informative article regarding justification of demand of early setting up of Seventh Pay Commission and Merger of DA in Basic Pay published by General Secretary, Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers Karnataka States.  The text of the article reproduced below:-                Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers have been demanding constitution of the 7 th  CPC, DA merger , and other 15 charter of common demands of the Central Government Employees apart from 48 common demands of the CG Employees which has been accepted by the Kolkatta conference.       The Common questions & answers which the Government of India has been  answering is that as follows.

OVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)  MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA) RAILWAY BOARD. RBE NO. 52/2013  No. F(E)I/2013/AL-4/4 New Delhi, Dated 31.05.2013  The General Managers, All Indian Railways/Production Units, (As per Mailing List). Sub: Tribal area Allowance The issue of payment of Tribal Area Allowance to railway employees was examined recently in context of a parliament question and it was found that the position with regard to payment of Tribal Area allowance varies widely on different Zonal railways. While some Zonal Railways have been paying Tribal Area Allowance in some Scheduled/Tribal areas, other railways have discontinued the allowance. This may be in some cases due to State Governments having discontinued the payment of such allowance to their employees in some areas, or due to non-availability of updated lists of Scheduled/Tribal Areas where State Governments are paying it to their employees, with the Railways, Railway Boa...

PENSION FUND REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY PFRDA/2013/12 /CRTB/2 31st May, 2013 To  All Central Government Ministries & State Governments All PrAOs / PAOs / DTAs / DTOs  All POPs / POP-SPs / Aggregators / Corporates All PFMs / ASPs  Dear Sir / Madam,  Subject: NPS Trust account numbers & contact details of New Trustee Bank 1, From '1st July, 2013' onwards, all NPS contributions are to be remitted to the designated accounts of Axis Bank. The overall procedure for remittance of funds to the Trustee Bank, the matching & booking of Subscriber Contribution Files (SCF) and the receipt of funds returned from Trustee Bank shall remain unchanged. While remitting the funds electronically to Axis Bank, the accredited banks shall still be required to mention the 26 character string 'PAOFIN <7 digit PAO registration number> <13 digit transaction id> s  in the 7002 field for NEFT and 7495 field for RTGS as per the current process. T...

Since the implementation of 6CPC from 1-1-2006, the consumer price index number for industrial worker is not coming down ever but it is increasing month by month. Similarly the rate of dearness allowance paid to central government employees also increasing at the interval of every six months period. The rate of dearness allowance was at zero level on 01-01-2006. After six years from implementation of 6CPC, now the dearness allowance stands at 80% level. The average increase in the dearness allowance is at the rate of 13% per year. Actually there is nothing to rejoice over the increase of dearness allowance. The Dearness allowance is nothing but the reflection of consumer price index. Likewise the consumer price index is determined by increase in the prices of basket of identified essential commodities. The increase of CPI number is not good any way for either the government employees or common people. Whatever the money the central government employees are supposed to get from th...

Honourable General Secretary of   Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers of Karnataka State published a valuable post regarding 7th CPC.CGE Portal has reproduced the same for your reference. Comrades,                  Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers have been demanding constitution of the 7th CPC, DA merger , and other 15 charter of common demands of the Central Government Employees apart from 48 common demands of the CG Employees which has been accepted by the Kolkatta conference.       The Common questions & answers which the Government of India has been  answering is that as follows.

It has been seen that one of the long time waging demand of raising the retirement age of govt employees has finally caught afire.  Through the Media and blogging sites re abound with news that the cabinet would announce news regarding the retirement age yet it has not been finalizes. Even then it has been come to known that a favorable decision would be put forth regarding this issue due to the oncoming lok sabha and three state assembly elections. In India the retirement ages of most of the state government employees range from 58 to 60. This is low in comparison to the government employees of foreign nation.   We shall see the effect of raising the retirement age in the following passage

Press Information Bureau  Government of India Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises 04-June-2013 21:05 IST Policy for wage negotiations for workmen in Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) The Union Cabinet today approved the proposal for permitting the management of Central Public Service Enterprises (CPSEs) to initiate wage negotiations generally effective from 01.01.2012, subject to the condition that negotiated scales of pay would not come in conflict with existing scales of pay of executives / officers and non-unionized supervisors of the respective CPSEs. This will benefit workmen of those  CPSE s which opted for 5 years of wage settlement w.e.f. 01.01.2007 and they can now go for another wage negotiation for 5 years w.e.f. 01.01.2012. Background : There are 260 CPSEs in the country employing 13.98 lakh persons (2.74 lakh executives, 0.31 lakh non-unionized supervisors and 10.93 lakh unionized supervisors and workmen) as on 31.3.2012. ...

The hot talk and the debate going around in the minds of the Central Government employees now a day is whether the Union Government is contemplating to rise the retirement age from 60 to 62 years. The talk has been necessitated due to the reliable press reports as well as systematic leakage of the news, on the subject. 

In the poll year, the central government employees may get a pleasant surprise of an increase in their retirement age to 62 years from 60 years at present. The Cabinet is likely to consider a proposal to this effect later today. There are around 50 lakh central government employees in India. The last time, government raised retirement age of central government employees was in 1998– from 58 to 60 years. Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan are the main assemblies which will go to polls later this year. The general elections are due in 2014. Source : http://www.business-standard.com/

Expected DA from July 2013 – Ministry of Labour and Employment has released AICPI (IW) – All India Consumer Price Index (Industrial Workers) for the month of April 2013.  This index gains significance as far as central government employees and pensioners are concerned as determination of Dearness Allowance twice in a year is based on AICPI (IW). All India Consumer Price Index for the period from July 2012 to June 2013 will be required to calculate expected DA from July 2013, for Central Government Employees and Pensioners. It is almost that the DA from July 2013 will be 90%